Lighten Up!!
Chocolate Espresso Pudding

Yield: 4 servings
Source: Cooking Light Magazine, January 2000
CL Comments: Soy milk, which is available in most large supermarkets, is as high in health-promoting isoflavones as much-touted tofu--1 cup contains 80 milligrams, an amount that has been shown to stave off osteoporosis. It is sold in cartons that are generally found on the baking aisle of the grocery store.

Comments from an Ohio Kitchen: My daughter needed to find a recipe to convert from English to Metric as part of a science project. She recieved extra credit if she actually made the dish and brought it in to share. She found this one the CL website, and it was a good choice. I really liked this pudding. Having always been a fan of cooked puddings over the redi-mix type, I actually nabbed a few spoonfulls of this while it was still warm. Even with all of the chocolate you can still taste the Soy Milk in this dish, so if really don't care for that taste, you may want to avoid this. I use chocolate soy milk in my morning coffee so I did not mind at all. My husband could not find fat free soy milk, so they used low fat. If you were to put the pudding into little pastry cups I don't think that you would even notice that is was not a milk based pudding.

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups fat-free soy milk
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium, heavy saucepan, and stir well with a whisk. Gradually stir in milk, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat, and simmer 1 minute or until thick. Remove from heat, and add chocolate, stirring until melted. Stir in vanilla.
  2. Pour about 1/2 cup pudding into each of 4 dessert dishes; cover surface of pudding with plastic wrap. Chill at least 4 hours. Remove plastic wrap to serve.

NUTRITIONAL INFO:

Healthy Units: 6 per serving
CALORIES 281(15% from fat); FAT 4.8g (sat 2.8g,mono 1.6g,poly 0.1g); PROTEIN 5.5g; CHOLESTEROL 0.0mg; CALCIUM 237mg; SODIUM 134mg; FIBER 0.6g; IRON 2mg; CARBOHYDRATE 56.2g

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